Homework

One of the most popular questions that students ask at the beginning of the school year is, "How much homework will we have?"  For some of you it may be more homework than you are used to.  For others it might be about the same as you had in fourth grade.  I figured I'd take this opportunity to explain to you what you can expect for homework in fifth grade.

• You can expect to have homework every night from Monday through Thursday.
• You will not have homework over the weekends.
• Every night you will be expected to read for at least 30 minutes and then complete an assignment option from a Reading Homework Menu that you will receive.  (the assignment should take you 10-15 minutes, assuming you are working and not distracted)
• Every night you will have a math assignment, sometimes it'll be a one sided page, other times two sided.  (10-20 minutes)
• Every night you will have an assignment with the five vocabulary words that you will have that week.  (10 minutes)
• Most nights you will have one additional assignment.  It could come from any subject area.  Sometimes it will be to study for a test.  Other times it might be to read and respond to an article in Time For Kids.  Or it could be something totally different.  (10-15 minutes)
• Throughout the year you will have different projects that we will work on both in school and at home.  You typically will have at least a month to work on them.

Overall homework should take you no longer than one hour plus your thirty minutes of reading.  At the end of the year I will be hosting a Tropical Smoothie Cafe luncheon for any students who never miss a homework assignment.